Full-color, captioned photographs of magnificent gardens throughout the world accompany a history of garden and landscape design that includes an examination of individual plants and design features
Includes bibliographical references (pages 454-457)
In the beginning : the origins of gardening -- Our classical heritage : ancient Greece and Roman gardens -- The gardens of Islam : heavenly beauty, earthly delight -- Pleasure and piety : medieval gardens of Christendom -- The Renaissance vision : the flowering of the European garden -- Plants on the move : botanists, collectors, and artists -- A natural revolution : the English landscape garden -- The eclectic 19th century : novelties, inventions, and revivals -- The Americas : new horizons in horticulture -- Gardens of China : a timeless tradition -- Japanese style : symbolism and restraint -- A time of change : from naturalism to modernism, 1870-1950 -- Today and tomorrow : a world of opportunities
Notes
repeated pages 218 to 240.obscured text on the back cover
